More Than One Lesson

Tyler and Josh discuss the Best Picture of 1968, Carol Reed’s Oliver!

In this episode, Reed and Tyler discuss Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel and Brad Bird’s The Iron Giant.

EPISODE BREAKDOWN
00:00:44- Intro, Film Nerds United, ICFF
00:02:45- Big news
00:04:00- Man of Steel
01:22:40- The Iron Giant
01:50:00- Episode wrap-up

In this episode, Tyler and Robert discuss the Coen Brothers’ Hail, Caesar! and Preston Sturges’ Sullivan’s Travels.

EPISODE BREAKDOWN
00:00:44- Intro, International Christian Film Festival
00:03:00- Hail, Caesar!
01:03:05- Sullivan’s Travels
01:22:40- Episode wrap-up

Tyler and Josh discuss Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight, 2015’s Best Picture.

In this episode, Tyler and Josh discuss Kevin Reynolds’ Risen and Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus.

EPISODE BREAKDOWN
00:00:44- Intro, new articles, International Christian Film Festival
00:02:50- Risen
00:53:18- Spartacus
01:04:35- Episode wrap-up

10. Room

It won’t surprise me if later years raise this on my list for me. There is an inherent metaphor present in the premise of a child who has only ever known a world between four walls that I find very compelling. I would spoil too much of what happens in the film to explain too deeply, but after the film was finished, I had so much rattling around in my head — about perspective, about being held captive from birth, and about the terror and hope of moving beyond what we know — that I was largely speechless.

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I don’t know of a single person in my life that has not at one time or another been failed by the Church. Either through hypocrisy, condemnation, neglect, politicizing, or even outright abuse, I think everyone has or eventually will experience disappointment with the institution which claims to be the people of God on Earth. Some of these failings are matters of personal perspective, but some, like the ones I saw handled in the two films I’m about to discuss, are issues of deep violation and betrayal.

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Many Christians will not see The Witch. Of the Christians who do see it, I expect that many will not enjoy it. It is an unsettling film. It is an intense film. It is hard to find any sort of redemptive message buried deep within its murky darkness, but I’ve managed to come away with a lesson in faith.

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Tyler and Josh discuss the Best Picture of 1969, Midnight Cowboy.

In this episode, Tyler and Reed discuss Pete Docter’s Inside Out and Alexander Payne’s About Schmidt.

EPISODE BREAKDOWN
00:00:44- Intro, Bone Tomahawk, Wade Williams
00:08:25- Inside Out
01:17:00- About Schmidt
01:48:40- Episode wrap-up